Ky. Derby Trail: Simple Twists of Fate

Lost in the overwhelming spectacle of the KentuckyDerby
and the arduous road leading to Churchill Downs are the little-known
ironies and twists of fate that get played out behind the scenes.

There was an old TV series, based on a movie of the same name, called “NakedCity,” which offered a gritty look at life in New York City. At the end of each show a narrator would say: “There are eight million stories in the NakedCity. This has been one of them.” There aren’t quite as many in the Kentucky Derby, but here are two from this year’s storylines.